California State Water Project

California

...balance. The Colorado River Aqueduct at the Arizona border carries water from that river across the southern California desert and mountains to serve the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The California State Water Project, launched in 1960, is the largest water-transfer system ever undertaken. It is designed to deliver water daily from the Feather River (a tributary of the Sacramento...

California Aqueduct

principal water-conveyance structure of the California State Water Project, U.S. From the Sacramento River delta east of San Francisco, it runs south through the San Joaquin Valley and over the summit of the Tehachapi Mountains, a distance of 273 miles (440 km). At this point it divides into east and west branches, the former terminating some 444 miles (715 km) from the delta. The aqueduct is...

Sierra Nevada

...Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park for water use in San Francisco, inundating natural features that rivaled those of nearby Yosemite Valley. A more recent and extensive scheme is the California State Water Project, which was begun in the 1960s with the construction of the Oroville Dam on the Feather River in the northern Sierra Nevada.